Question

I am sorting a table based on the name column, but it is not sorting properly.

It is sorting like this :- First 20 rows based on alphabetical order and after that it is again sorting based on alphabetical order.

This is my query

select Name,ID from tbl_book order by Name Limit 0,100

and this is what i am getting

abcd|2
bgry|3
...
...
zref|100
agtr|4
dret|10
...
...

any one know why this is happening.

UPDATE

ID int(11)
Name varchar(255)

Its answer is

select ltrim(Name),ID from tbl_book order by 1 Limit 0,100

Given By TUXUDAY..

Answer 1

Try this query:

SELECT Name, ID 
FROM  tbl_book
ORDER BY LTRIM(Name)
LIMIT 100;

or there could be a problem with collation of data. try this also:

SELECT Name, ID 
FROM  tbl_book
ORDER BY LTRIM(Name) COLLATE latin1_swedish_ci 
LIMIT 100;